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Michael Wall

2004-06-22, 6:00 pm

Hi

We're having problems trying to display extended/special characters in
struts portlets.

This isn't a problem for standard jsp portlets, only struts.

The problem occurs for text on the jsp (temp) or for text retrieved from db2
and displayed with bean:write tags etc. or with a method in the jsp.

db2 character encoding is set to UTF-8

The portlet is deployed on WebSphere PortalServer 4.2 Extend, with WebSphere
4.05 AppServer.

Running the same struts application as a Web Applicaton in local test server
works as expected (WebSphere v4.0 Test Environment), WebSphere Application
Developer 5.1.

We have following tags in jsps:

meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"

%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %

we have also specified 'contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"' in the
struts-config controller

we have tried adding the following to the Portal server JVM settings:

-Dclient.encoding.override=UTF-8
(replacing -Dclient.encoding.override=8859_1) but this strips out everything
after and including the first special character encountered when submitting
form fields. eg. 'empêcher des utilisateurs d'accéder' is passed to
handler/for persistance as 'emp'.

removing this persists as expected but prevents jsp being rendered...



Issue appears to be with transcoding - but can't find much/any documentation
about it. It is installed...

transcoding and filtering are both enabled (from properties files), have
tried with each on/off etc. but no luck



The exception thrown is:

Nested Exception is sun.io.MalformedInputException

at sun.io.ByteToCharUTF8.convert(ByteToCharUTF8.java(Compiled Code))

at java.io.InputStreamReader.convertInto(InputStreamReader.java:152)

at java.io.InputStreamReader.fill(InputStreamReader.java:201)

at java.io.InputStreamReader.read(InputStreamReader.java:264)

at java.io.Reader.read(Reader.java:116)

at com.ibm.transform.wps.Toolkit.writeReaderToWriter(Toolkit.java:408)

at
com.ibm.transform.wps.portletfilter.TranscodingPortletFilter.doService(Trans
codingPortletFilter.java:205)

at
com.ibm.wps.portlet.filters.PortletControlledTranscodingFilter.doService(Por
tletControlledTranscodingFilter.java:195)

at
com.ibm.wps.portletcontainer.portletfilter.PortletFilterAdapter.doFilter(Por
tletFilterAdapter.java:79)

at
com.ibm.wps.portletcontainer.invoker.PortletFilterChainImpl.doFilter(Portlet
FilterChainImpl.java:109)

at
com.ibm.wps.portletcontainer.invoker.PortletInvokerServiceImpl.include(Portl
etInvokerServiceImpl.java:1730)

at
com.ibm.wps.portletcontainer.invoker.PortletInvokerServiceImpl.callPortletMe
thod(PortletInvokerServiceImpl.java:289)

at
com.ibm.wps.portletcontainer.invoker.PortletInvokerServiceImpl.portletServic
e(PortletInvokerServiceImpl.java:951)

at
org.apache.jetspeed.portletcontainer.invoker.PortletInvoker.portletService(P
ortletInvoker.java:154)


Has anyone encountered similar issue or have fix/additional configuration
settings etc.


Michael


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